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Biography of Philipp Lenard
Philipp Lenard's major contribution to science was in the study of cathode rays, for which he won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1905.
photoelectric effect • biography of philipp lenard • cathode rays • nobel prize in physics • quantum theory of max planck

Douglas D. Osheroff - Superfluid Helium-3
Douglas D. Osheroff was a graduate student working late in the low temperature laboratory at CalTech when he noted unexpected results on a graph. He alerted his advisors and they concluded they had found the conditions at which helium-3 changes to a superfluid. Osheroff would share a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work.
douglas osheroff • nobel prize in physics • solid state physics • low temperature physics • caltech

Frederick Reines - Co-Discoverer of the Neutrino
Frederick Reines casts a long shadow on elementary particle physics, as an early participant in the Manhattan Project, as co-discoverer of the neutrino, as founding Dean of the School of Physical Sciences at the University of California at Irvine, and as co-winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in physics.
frederick reines • elementary particle physics • manhattan project • neutrino • university of california at irvine

Martin Perl - The Third Quark-Lepton Family - Tau Lepton
Martin Perl won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of a third quark-lepton family of elementary particles. His research extended the Standard Model for physics.
martin perl • nobel prize in physics • elementary particles • tau lepton • stanford university

Niels Bohr - Danish Physicist Extraordinaire
Niels Bohr proposed a quantum structure for the atom, won a Nobel prize for physics, and worked on the Manhattan.
niels bohr • quantum mechanics • physics • university of copenhagen • institute of theoretical physics

Alexei Abrikosov - Type II Superconductors and the Abrikosov Vortex Lattice
Alexei Abrikosov left the former Soviet Union to work at the Argonne National Laboratory in 1991. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003 for his work on type II superconductors.
alexei abrikosov • nobel • physics • type ii superconductor • abrikosov vortex lattice

Biography of Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan
A brief biography of Robert A. Millikan, who won the 1923 Nobel prize in physics for his famous Millikan oil drop experiment.
robert millikan • millikan oil drop experiment • electrical charge • electric charge • oil drop experiment

Niels Bohr, Physicist
Brief biography and philosophy of Niels Bohr, famous for the atomic structure model, the foundation of quantum mechanics.
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Robert B. Laughlin - Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
Robert B. Laughlin shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theoretical framework explaining fractional quantum Hall effect.
robert b laughlin • fractional quantum hall effect • stanford • bell labs • lawrence livermore national laboratory

Women Science Nobel Prize Winners
On Monday, October 6th, 2008, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, adding another woman to the list of Nobel Prize winners.
women nobel laureates • women in science • 2008 nobel prize • françoise barré-sinoussi • marie curie

Antony Hewish - Pulsars and the Phased-Array Antenna
Antony Hewish has always been at the center of radio astronomy. He built the phased array attenna that helped find the first pulsar. For his work, he shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974
hewish • jocelyn bell • radio astronomy • phased array attenna • pulsar

Marie Curie Biography
Brief biography of Marie Curie, first world-famous female scientist, the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in different science fields, physics and chemistry.
marie curie biography • marie curie early life • marie curie nobel prize • marie curie education • marie curie radioactivity

Martinus Veltman - Particle Physics and Gauge Theories
Martinus Veltman shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1999 for his work in building the mathematical model that predicted the properties of sub-atomic particles.
martinus veltman • particle physics • fermi • brookhaven • cern

Raymond Davis Jr - Tenacity and Solar Neutrinos
Raymond Davis Jr. devoted his career to the little researched field of cosmic neutrinos, demonstrating that the energy of the sun is released during the fusion of hydrogen and helium. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002 and helped start the field of neutrino-astronomy.
raymond davis jr • neutrino-astronomy • cosmic neutrino • solar neutrino • brookhaven national laboratory

Feynman Lectures on Physics
The Feynman physics lectures are the result of an introductory physics course that Nobel prize winning physicist, Richard Feynman, taught at Caltech in the early 1960s.
feynman • feynman lectures • physics • nobel prize • richard feynman

2009 Nobel Laureates Shaped Modern Networking
For photos of Mars, cell phone cameras, barcode readers, fax machines and camcorders, thank 2009 Nobel Prize Winners in physics Dr. George Smith and Dr. Willard Boyle.
nobel prize • physics prize • physicists • scientists • telescope technology

2009 Nobel Peace Prize – 205 Names Submitted
Every year around October there is much speculation about Nobel Prize winners, especially who the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize will be.
2009 nobel peace prize • norwegian nobel institute • norwegian nobel committee 2007 • 2008 • former us vice-president al gore

An Introduction to Biophysics
The biological world can often seem like an arbitrary place, but at its heart it is governed by the laws of physics.
biophysics • biological physics • laser tweezers • magnetic tweezers • atomic force microscope

Australian Inventions
The telegraph, refrigeration, even the humble ute - all prove that at least a page in the history of invention has to be reserved for some ingenious Australian creations.
australian inventions • inventors • breakthroughs • science • utility

Canada's First Nuclear Reactor: ZEEP
The research on atomic theories performed with the ZEEP reactor at Chalk River, Ontario, lead to the large scale atomic reactors providing nuclear power today.
zeep • zero energy experimental pile • zeep reactor chalk river • zeep first nuclear reactor in canada • nuclear testing in canada

Carl E Wieman - The Fifth State of Matter
Carl E Wieman shares the 2001 Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the Bose-Einstein condensate, the fifth state of matter.
bose-einstein condensate • quantum mechanics • atomic physics • nobel • physicist

Facts about the Star Betelgeuse
Betelgeuse, also known as Alpha Orionis, is a red supergiant star that could undergo a supernova in the not-too-distant future.
betelgeuse facts • red supergiant in orion • orion's shoulder star • bright star in orion • shrinking star

John Rayleigh : Inert Gas Argon
Brief biography of English physicist Lord John Rayleigh, a Nobel Prize laureate in physics for isolating gas argon, known for "Rayleigh Scattering" and why sky is blue.
john rayleigh physicist scientist • john rayleigh bio • rayleigh scattering • discovered inert gas argon • rayleigh sky is blue

Millikan Oil Drop Experiment
In 1910, physicist, Robert A. Millikan, first measured the charge on the electron, which is the fundamental electric charge, with his classic oil drop experiment.
robert millikan • millikan oil drop experiment • electrical charge • electric charge • oil drop experiment

Quoted in Young's Novel The Shack
William P. Young uses epigraphs in his novel The Shack. Here is a list of epigraphs for chapters 11-12 and a brief synopsis of their source.
william p young • willie young • gk chesterton • blaise pascal • albert einstein

Radioactive Element Polonium.
A major news item of 2006 was the mysterious death of former Russian agent, Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned using an isotope of the metal, polonium.
polonium • radioactivity • alexander litvinenko • henri becquerel • marie curie

Three Great Physics Theories
Isaac Newton invented calculus to describe things that are moving or changing in some way. This was just the beginning of more new and exciting physics theories to come.
general relativity • theory of relativity • quantum theory • heisenberg • uncertainty principle

What Is a Neutrino?
Neutrinos are among the most elusive of elementary particles. They were not detected until about 25 years after they were first suggested to exist.
fundamental particle • elementary particle • conservation of energy • neutrino • conservation of momentum

Are Scientists Closing in on the Higgs Boson?
Scientists with the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory say their machine has a 50% chance of discovering the particle which is believed to give mass to the universe.
large hadron collider • lhc • tevatron • peter higgs • higgs boson

Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard
Mankind's greatest atomic power was harnessed through the invention of the nuclear reactor by two physicists, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard.
nuclear reactor inventors • enrico fermi • leo szilard • nuclear reactor invention • atomic reactor

Riccardo Giacconi - The Executive Astronomer
The 2003 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics was Riccardo Giacconi, current president of the Associated Universities Incorporated, and an internationally reknown astronomer credited with locating the first cosmic source of X-rays.
giacconi • stsci • uhuru • hubble • skylab

Steven Weinberg - Unifying the Forces
Steven Weinberg shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979 by demonstrating a unification of the weak and electromagnetic forces between elementary particles.
weak force • atom • nobel • physicist • weinberg

The Domestic Roots of Ancient Alchemy
Alchemy, an ancient science whose practitioners extended from the Far East, the Near East and Europe, likely had its beginnings in the domestic world of women.
maria prophetissa • mary the jewess • alchemy • gold • transmutation

Lise Meitner - Nuclear Physicist Extraordinaire
Lise Meitner provided the first practical explanation of nuclear fission. She was denied a Nobel Prize, but she was well regarded by her peers at a time when women were not well regarded at all.
lise meitner • fission • nuclear fission • atomic bomb • bohr

Marie Curie-Sklodowska Studies Mysterious Rays
Marie Curie, born in November, is one of the world's most famous scientist. Here is the story of the two chemical elements that she discovered and the two Nobel Prizes that she won.
marie curie • chemical elements • discovery

Marie Sklodowski Curie, 1867-1934
As December is a month for gift-giving, it is a suitable time to look at Marie Curie whose research resulted in gifts of knowledge that continue to impact the whole world. Madame Curie, as she is most frequently called, was a self-effacing woman who lived for her research and her family. She was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize (1903 in Physics for the discovery of radioactivity), and only one of four individuals to have ever received two Nobel Prizes (the second in 1911 in Chemistry for the discovery of radium and polonium and for the chemical isolation of pure radium). Marie's discovery of radium gave birth to understanding of the structure of the atom. Her methods of research pioneered a meticulous pursuit of knowledge that immensely improved the image of science. Her research, which has led to radiation treatment to help cancer patients, caused her own death by "radiation poisoning"--doctors labeled it "aplastic pernicious anemia of rapid, feverish development." Actually, it had not been a rapid development, and the anemia was likely a form of leukemia caused by years of unprotected contact with radioactivity.
marie curie • madame curie • radioactivity • radium • research

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